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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.


— Ella Wheeler Wilcox


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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.


— Ella Wheeler Wilcox


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'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.


— Ella Wheeler Wilcox


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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.


— Ella Wheeler Wilcox


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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.


— Ella Wheeler Wilcox


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The spark divine dwells in thee: let it grow.


— Ella Wheeler Wilcox


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Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.


— Ella Wheeler Wilcox


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One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.


— Ella Wheeler Wilcox


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The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.


— Ella Wheeler Wilcox


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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!


— Ella Wheeler Wilcox


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About Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes




Did you know about Ella Wheeler Wilcox?

The two homes they built on Long Island Sound along with several cottages became known as Bungalow Court and they would hold gatherings there of literary and artistic friends. In 1884 Ella Wheeler Wilcox married Robert Wilcox of Meriden Connecticut where the couple lived before moving to New York City and then to Granite Bay in the Short Beach section of Branford Connecticut. She was overcome with grief which became ever more intense as week after week went without any message from him.

Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her autobiography The Worlds and I was publiElla Wheeler Wilcoxd in 1918 a year before her death.

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